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Based on this story, for all we know most criminals are smart. It's just the dumb ones use Sky and get caught.

• dylan604 6y ago
  And yet, the police all claim that criminals are dumb, and wait for them to do something that gets them caught. That's one of the basic investigation tactics--wait for the criminal to screw up.
  • krageon 6y ago
    > the police all claim that [...] Yes, because if this wasn't true they would look bad.
  • tomca32 6y ago
    Because all the ones they catch are dumb. There’s no information on how many are smart
    • spoonjim 6y ago
      It’s not an issue of smart vs. dumb. It’s that the cops can screw up infinitely without consequence (yesterday US cops shot a 1 year old baby in the head... nothing will happen to any of them) while the criminals have to be perfect and get busted on the first mistake. That asymmetry is why idiot cops who could barely graduate high school routinely bust even skilled criminals.